| Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | | | | | | | | | | DATE: 2013-05-06 SIZE: 2,87MB DISKS: 01_______4,77MB PAGES: | | | | PUBLISHER: Grand Central Publishing GENRE: Fiction | | | | AUTHOR: Seth Grahame-Smith | | | | FORMAT: EPUB PROTECTION: DRM EDITION: | | | | URL: https://www.diesel-ebooks.com/item/9780446563086/Grahame-Smith-Seth-Abraham-Lincoln-Vampire-Hunter/1.html | | | LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-0-446-57185-2 | : : : Indiana , 1818 . Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a : : one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his : : suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the : : old-timers call "Milk Sickness." : : : : "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. : : : : Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction : : was actually the work of a vampire. : : : : When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln , he writes in his journal, ": : henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall : : become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one : : purpose ..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an : : ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to : : the White House. : : : : While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing : : millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has : : remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth : : Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln , and : : became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. : : : : Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style : : of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the : : true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while : : revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role : : vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation. :